MGMT 2008 Edition (with Review Cards and Printed Access Card)

by Williams, Chuck

• ISBN13: 9780324655445
• ISBN10: 0324655444
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-10-10
• Publisher: South-Western College Pub

Summary

Student-tested and faculty-approved, MGMT is an innovative approach to teaching principles of management. This brief paperback includes a suite of learning aids to accommodate the busy and diverse lifestyles of today's learners, including downloadable flash cards, video, MP3 review podcasts, and quick quizzes by cell phone that allow students to study wherever they are and whenever they have time. Designed to reach today's students, MGMT says it all in four letters, reflecting how this unique solution speaks in the language of today's learner. MGMT started with student conversations, focus groups, interviews, surveys, and input from nearly 150 faculty members like you. This innovative approach unites research and author Chuck Williams' unique storytelling approach in a visually rich, yet professional design that reads like a business periodical. MGMT provides a streamlined, concepts-driven format with optional exercises, cases, and applications found in the supplement package, which you can choose to use depending on your students' needs. Choose MGMT for the unique principles of management solution that you and your students have created together.

Table of Contents

Introduction To Management

Management

History of Management

Organizational Environments and Cultures

Ethics and Social Responsibility

Planning

Planning and Decision Making

Organizational Strategy

Innovation and Change

Global Management

Organizing

Designing Adaptive Organizations

Managing Teams

Managing Human Resource Systems

Managing Individuals and a Diverse Work Force

Leading

Motivation

Leadership

Managing Communication

Leading

Control

Managing Information

Managing Service and Manufacturing Operations

Endnotes

Name

Index Subject

Index

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